There I was on the couch watching Chelsea FC take out
Leicester city FC, sipping up a banana flavor yogurt and off course, doing
what every 21st century human does with technology (gadgets);
“chatting on facebook”. I was in such a great mood I decided to have some nice
little chat with several aspirants. There was this economics aspirant (am sure
she’s reading) who called me and kept telling me how excited she was about her
screening coming up. I understood though, she couldn’t help her excitement,
perfectly understandable, but I kept wondering if she was equally as prepared
as her excitement level seem. So I tried screening her myself. As a prospective
economics student that she was I asked her what the major tools for economic analysis
were, she kept quiet as I waited, and told me she didn’t know. I was shocked. I
was shocked big-time. I asked her what a “budget” was and again she didn’t
know. I just spent the rest of the day wondering what she thought she was
coming to KSU to do. The more I thought I started generalizing, “with all this
relative excitement, what do these aspirants think they are coming to KSU to
do?”
Let’s get some things perfectly clear, no staff in KSU
(academic or non-academic) is going to sit with you during your screening and
ask you “what is the name of the v.c” kind off questions and recommend your
name for admission based on those kinds of questions. No, it’s not done. So if
you are sitting somewhere thinking that’s what you’re going to meet, sorry to
disappoint you but that’s most likely not what you’re going to get. So what are
you getting excited about, because if you’re all excited like it’s the 25th
of December I hope for your sake you’re equally prepared.
Quite simply, it’s a test, which will be conducted orally
in an interactive manner. So like the former computer based test, it’s still a
test. A quick insight, shall we;
·
The advantage of this format is that questions
are most likely going to be based around your course of study unlike before
when candidates had to read wide to pass.
·
Come your screening date it won’t matter who you
know in and around the institution. The people screening you most likely won’t
know or give damn about you.
·
The only key to your success based on the
advantage listed first (the test revolves around your course of study) is how
prepared you are.
Below, is exactly what you need to do to be fully
prepared:
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Know the
basics (very very important): how would you expect to gain admission as a
geography aspiring candidate if you don’t know what percentage of the earth is
covered by water, or as a math aspiring candidate if you don’t know
what regression
line analysis means in statistic. There is no course in the institution
that does have its basics (like mass communication starting from communication,
or sociology being about the environment and so on) which you should have prior
knowledge about either through your secondary school or through………..
-
Doing
proper research about your course of study: no matter how sound you think
you are in the knowledge of your (prospective) course of study you still have
to keep researching. Knowledge as they say is never enough, never ending so no
matter how much you think you know there’s still a billion other things you
don’t know so keep studying and researching until what you know is sufficient
to see you through.
-
Dot all
I’s and cross all T’s: like I said in the point above, you have to find the
loopholes in your knowledge of your course of study fix them in time for your
screening. Fact is, it’s just a couple of hours, but it’s the most important
“couple of minutes” of your life, for now (except you’re getting ready to marry
soon or something) and you have to prepare adequately for it.
-
Work on
yourself: your physical appearance, your diction, your style of talking,
your mode of talking, your tone of talking, the way you relate and so on. You
have to work on these things, make sure they’re in sync. You have to be charismatic
enough to face anybody, and speak confidently to sway anybody during your
screening. Balance is also very key to, don’t appear too confident, don’t laugh
too much, or at least don’t laugh when it absolutely not necessary. Don’t just
frown your face like ginger bread. Be yourself but work on yourself.
-
Browse
through your secondary school stuffs over and over and over………and over again:
yep. Absolutely necessary too. Keep yourself fresh.
-
Know thy
God: this does not need much explanation, you know what I mean.
Do all this and yes, you are good to go. Do all this and
yes, you are prepared. Cut the excitement now and do these things.
Am out!!!!
J.L.O
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